Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Blood Brothers Quotes - Mrs Johnstone
and Mrs Lyons
- Raising the child(ren)
- Nature vs Nurture
- Mrs Johnstone
- Has multiple children
- More children to look after
- Has to devote time to each of them
- Not a lot of time
- Only can buy essentials
- Children don't have
much to play with
- Mrs Lyons
- Only has one child - Edward
- All time devoted to Edward
- Spent money on him
- Has a lot of money from social class
- Class has affected
their
lives/upbringing
- Education values for children
- Work
- 'He told me I was sexier than Marilyn Monroe'
- Female
sexuality or
vulerability
- Frequently compared to her
- A woman who was dubbed a
perfect figure at that time
- Motif
- Her drepression is much like Mockey
- 'By the time I was twenty-five, I looked like forty-two'
- Mrs Johnstone had a hard life
- She was expected to have children
- Women in
that time
were
expected
to stay at
home
- Historical context
- 'Bright new day, we're going away'
- Council houses
- Skelmerdale
- Reunit with the Lyons
- A song
- A reoccuring thing throughout the play
- Play/Musical
- Foreboding
- The Jonstones move
not long after the Lyons
- Only in Act two so expected to
move to the same place
- 'the mother, so cruel there's a stone in place of her heart'
- It makes the
viewer believe
a fake
statement
- It starts the story off with a lie and then another scene
- Viewers don't know what to believe
- Describing the wrong person
- Should be Mrs Lyons
- Turning away the other sibling
- 'Don't you ever come round here again'
- Suprised to see him
- Scared?
- Supersitition
- Fearful that they'd die
- Hope to make him leave him alone
- Mrs Jonhstone to Edward
- Not polite
- 'I'm very sorry, but it's Edward's bedtime'
- Polite
- Protective/shelters Edward
- He has a bed time
- Trying to keep him away from Mickey
- Bad influence
- Parallel scenes
- Structure
- Both the same dispite class
- They're still brothers despite being
seperated
- 'How can you possibly
avoid some of them being
put into care?'
- Manipulating her
- Uses Mrs
Johnston'es
working classs
status against her
- Uses this to persuade
Mrs Johnstone into
giving up one of the
twins
- 'You know what they say about twins secretly parted?'
- Superstition
- A reoccuring topic/theme
- Mrs Lyons creates on to
manipulate Mrs Jonhstone
- It actually comes true
- God like act?
- Mrs Lyons and Mrs
Johnstone both
contribute to this
- Using Mrs Johnstone's
beliefs againat her
- 'has a lethal-looking
kitchen knife in her
hand'
- Stage directions
- Has lost her sanity by this stage
- Tries to attack Mrs Johnstone
- Believes that she is following her
- Paranoid